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I installed the yii user extension and now i am wandering how i can add an extra role. I added a new column in the User db table and edited the UserModule like this:

public static function isEmployee() {
        if(Yii::app()->user->isGuest)
            return false;
        else {
            if (!isset(self::$_employee)) {
                            //check to see what kind of user we got and include admin for all 
                if(self::user()->type)
                    self::$_employee = true;
                else
                    self::$_employee = false;   
            }
            return self::$_employee;
        }
    }

and then when i try calling this in the rest of my site it dose not seem to work 

'visible' => Yii::app()->user->isEmployee()

What i am doing wrong or what would be the best way to add an extra role that i can call on the site as above.

Mohit Bhansali
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Gunnit
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  • Have you looked at http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/yii-user-management/ ? It offers a decent RBAC, I've used it in production before. Easy to setup and use. – adamors May 13 '13 at 13:24

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I don't know which extension exactly you installed - but you confused it with the user component. The user component is what you can access through Yii::app()->user. It's a CWebUser object by default. You can create your custom class WebUser extends CWebUser in the components/ directory. You would configure this as user component in your main.php config file.

'components' => array(
    'user' => 'WebUser',
),

Then you move your isEmployee() method into that class. As you didn't provide any details on which extension you used, i can not really help you how to get that role check right. But i wonder if you shouldn't rather use a RBAC based solution. It allows you to create Roles and assign them to users. There are also several extensions that help you to manage roles and users.

Michael Härtl
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  • hey thanks for the reply , this is the extension i used http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/yii-user/ let me know if you know how to add a role to this , thanks – Gunnit May 12 '13 at 13:27
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Yii User is not meant for adding roles to users, it only handles user account management.

You may install an additional extension like rights, auth or srbac (see list) which provides a web-interface for this task.

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